Esther Kinsky: Hain [Grove]
The latest addition to my website is Esther Kinsky's Hain [Grove]. LikeAm Fluss (River), her previous work - this novel is about the travels of an unnamed narrator, clearly Kinsky…
The latest addition to my website is Esther Kinsky's Hain [Grove]. LikeAm Fluss (River), her previous work - this novel is about the travels of an unnamed narrator, clearly Kinsky…
The latest addition to my website is Hamid Ismailov's Hayy-ibn-Yakzan (Of Strangers and-Bees). This is another superb book from Hamid Ismailov, the Uzbek novelist, about exile and, indeed about bees.…
The latest addition to my website is Rodrigo Márquez Tizano's Yakarta (Jakarta). This is a dystopian novel from Mexico, describing a country called Atlantika, where a horrible epidemic, with the…
The latest addition to my website is Maik Nwosu's Alpha Song. Our hero, a Nigerian who adopts the name Taneba Taneba when he is estranged from his father's family, never…
The latest addition to my website is César Aira's Princesa primavera [Princess Springtime]. This is something of a subversion of the traditional fairy tale. The eponymous princess lives in a…
The latest addition to my website is Mircea Cărtărescu's Levantul [The Levant]. This is a mock epic, which, in the original Romanian was written primarily in verse form, but, for…
The latest addition to my website is Mario Vargas Llosa's Tiempos recios [Hard Times]. The novel deals with the overthrow of the democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz in 1954,…
The latest addition to my website is Rodrigo Fresán's La parte inventada (The Invented Part). This is a long, rambling novel, the first of the trilogy, about Fresán's favourite subject…
The latest addition to my website is Miloš Crnjanski's Roman o Londonu [London Novel]. This is a long and sad tale, based on Crnjanski's own life, about a Russian prince,…
The latest addition to my website is Nicolás Giacobone's El cuaderno tachado (The Crossed-Out Notebook). Giacabone is a scriptwriter so it is not surprising that his first novel tells the…